| Title: | The American teenage world: case study of subtitling in the movie Juno |
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| Authors: | ID Orešnik, Veronika (Author)
ID Gadpaille, Michelle (Mentor) More about this mentor... 
ID Zupan, Simon (Comentor) |
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| Files: |  UNI_Oresnik_Veronika_2009.pdf (787,05 KB)
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PID: 20.500.12556/dkum/debf4bee-7724-4b78-af36-f2bca10b89ac
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Undergraduate thesis |
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| Organization: | FF - Faculty of Arts
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| Abstract: | Besides offering wonderful entertainment, the movie Juno introduces its audience to numerous aspects of the American teenage world. The movie itself is like a teenage rebel: it is different, it does not moralize and it is full of teenage problems, slang and humor – every piece of it is taken from the world of teens. The translator of the movie must immerse himself in this world to solve various translation difficulties, complicated by cultural, linguistic and subtitling restrictions. In the analysis and evaluation of subtitling, a differentiation between translating plain text and translating film dialogue is made, strategies for subtitling are discussed and constraints within which the subtitler must perform are explained. According to Birgit Nedergaard-Larsen’s (1993) clarification, culture-bound elements are divided into those of the extralinguistic and those of the intralinguistic kind. Features of figurative language (particularly simile, metaphor, alliteration and allusion) and their translation strategies are discussed. An overview of Slovene slang is provided, starting with theoretical points of Slovene linguists and the influences of Serbo-Croatian, German and English on Slovene slang and ending with the recent development of cyber slang and slang exploitation in advertising. On the basis of careful analysis of slang in the movie Juno, several features of American slang are explained with regard to Slovene translation. Here, attention is paid to the influence of American slang on Slovene, their comparison and the differences between the original dialogue and the translation. However, the main body of discussion involves the analysis of particular problems from the movie Juno and the provision of new solutions. The translation problems are divided into three main categories: culture-bound elements, figures of speech and slang. Special focus is given to the translation of allusions and figurative slang, since both have received little attention in Slovene linguistics and translation theory. |
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| Keywords: | podnaslavljanje, kultura, sleng, besedne figure, aluzije |
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| Place of publishing: | Maribor |
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| Publisher: | [V. Orešnik] |
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| Year of publishing: | 2009 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-10572 |
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| UDC: | 821.111(73)(043.2) |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 17086216 |
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| NUK URN: | URN:SI:UM:DK:LOOJKFYA |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 29.08.2009 |
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| Views: | 4079 |
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| Categories: | FF
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